nor along and her friend anita yon were both 12 years old like christophe adam they and their families lived in your hand. when they need to yawn heard the 1st air raid sirens she knew exactly what to do. she grabbed a suitcase and went down into the basement with her parents. by own snitched the air raid shelter wasn't really a room more like a corridor but even that was not finished with cement it was constructed out of cobble stones these were old houses. so each was required to have a container of sand and buckets for sand and water down there the whole. it son i am so rich in these restored in old disused bathtubs or other containers. burden is a myth was. here and is exposed cellars in front of the front you can see some of the city's rudimentary civil defense measures. as often as muslim whenever possible the basements here interest and were connected to each other by a network of makeshift passageways that crossed over property lines. and spaces. that way if people found themselves trapped underground and couldn't get out they could escape by going through another building on t

were brought out of the rubble and laid out in rows in the streets to be registered 12 year old anita yon who had managed to pull herself out of the rubble now had to identify the bodies of her parents. and all my parents were lying there as though they were asleep they weren't disfigured at all. it's on the hall of on if their hair was a little messy and so were their clothes on jury duty of on but i was able to identify them and that gave me some comfort. and she seemed in principle schtick they basically suffocated when a man handed me their wedding rings that was the worst experience of my life. because in that moment i knew i was all alone. crews worked quickly to dispose of the corpses not least because of the fear that disease could spread through the city. in early march troops set up huge metal grates in the district up to 500 bodies at a time were piled onto the structures doused with petrol and burned. by mid march a total of 18375 victims have been recovered dressed in police chief reported to officials in berlin that the death toll could rise to 25000 but the propaganda minis